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Some 10 years ago now when I first became interested in how complexity science might be used in public administration there was a body of thinking but relatively few practical examples of applications. So what is applying complexity thinking to public policy really all about?

To give just one example, I can’t figure out how to see the frequency of the surnames Kumar and Weinberger compared side-by-side in WolframAlpha’s signature fashion. Search engines are easier because they have already trained us how to talk to them. We eventually learn that quoting a phrase searches for exactly that phrase. Google has enough dominance in the market that its syntax influences other search engines.

Our relationship with knowledge is changing as our work becomes more intangible and complex. For example, the role of online community manager, a fast-growing field today, barely existed five years ago. We are seeing increasing examples of this on the edges of the modern enterprise.

Ive spent the better part of my career building applications that help people connect to each other and share knowledge (search is the best example of that). The best products are the ones that slowly reveal complexity as you use them.

F or example, tracking potentially hazardous , fast moving, near-Earth objects is based on the detection of very small changes in the sky. Let me discuss two examples of AI solutions that’ve been enhanced by the inclusion of pre-defined models.

For example, as described in a 2013 Harvard Business Review paper , Pentland and his then postdoctoral associate Yaniv Altshuler and graduate student Wei Pan devised a research project based on data from the social trading platform eToro.

In a September, 2012 paper , Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon questioned the generally accepted assumption that economic growth is a continuous process that will persist forever. As examples of recombinant innovation, e-mail and the Web were enabled by the Internet.

To help overcome the stiff resistance often encountered by disruptive innovations, - both within one’s own organization and in the marketplace, - the article proposed that design thinking should be applied to their actual introduction, - a process it calls intervention design.

Transaction costs are a kind of friction incurred in obtaining goods and services outside the firm, such as searching for the right supply chain partners, establishing a trusted relationship, negotiating a contract, coordinating the work, managing intellectual property and so on.

It’s enabled the construction of AI algorithms that can be trained with lots and lots of sample inputs, which are subsequently applied to difficult AI problems like language translation, natural language processing, and playing championship-level Go.

IBM defines cognitive systems as “a category of technologies that uses natural language processing and machine learning to enable people and machines to interact more naturally to extend and magnify human expertise and cognition.

In contrast to digitalisation, which enabled productivity improvements and efficiency gains on already existing processes, datafication promises to completely redefine nearly every aspect of our existence as humans on this planet.

Thanks for helping us along Adrian Adrian Gnägi Knowledge and Learning Processes Being on the US West Coast, my other KM4Dev colleagues had already provided some great responses (again, see the thread !) For example, a wiki is a tool. These are examples of features.

To help overcome the stiff resistance often encountered by disruptive innovations, - both within one’s own organization and in the marketplace, - the article proposed that design thinking should be applied to their actual introduction, - a process it calls intervention design.

Such methods include quality control of the processes involved in production; just-in-time production to reduce the costs associated with excess inventory; and continuous improvement involving everyone in the organization in the quest for new, easy to implement ideas. .

Is it a return to centralized computing , driven by the rising complexities, management costs and energy inefficiencies of distributed systems? Processes with clearly defined rules for their execution can be unbundled, recombined, and automated.

For example, Gartner’s Research director Svetlana Sicular recently observed that big data has already reached the peak of the hype cycle , and is now falling into the trough of disillusionment , a necessary step before (hopefully) moving on to the slope of enlightenment.

Peg “got that there was both an information architecture and a set of social processes associated with their use of a wiki as both a project communication tool and as a knowledge sharing tool. And it is a Technorati search, so I have to go to Technorati and THEN link back to your blog.

These include solving problems, comprehending complex ideas, reasoning and planing, learning quickly, adapting to new situations, and so on. Reading the minds of others and reacting is an unconscious process, and skill in social settings has evolved in humans over thousands of years.

The second age machines are now enhancing our cognitive powers, giving us the ability to process vast amounts of information and make ever more complex decisions. And question-answering systems like IBM’s Watson are enabling us to solve increasingly complex problems. . “We’re

Transaction costs are incurred in obtaining goods and services outside the firm, such as searching for the right people, negotiating a contract, coordinating the work, managing intellectual property and so on.

As our business contexts become increasingly complex, the success rate of large scale transformation efforts and projects are rapidly decreasing. Many have been looking for answers to improve their performance and results, often jumping from one method to the next in search of “The Answer”.

Its central argument is that for nearly four decades, the Internet has been great for reducing the costs of searching, collaborating, and exchanging information. An example of such a stablecoin is the asset-backed Digital Trade Coin (DTC) , a reserve currency being developed as part of MIT’s Connection Science initiative. Blockchain and Identity Complex Systems Digital Money and Payments Economic Issues Innovation Political Issues Society and Culture Technology and Strategy

The study examined the current state of US research and innovation; looked at the role of its key players: academia, industry, and government; and proposed a set of recommendations to better address the highly complex challenges we face in the 21st century information economy.

In a September, 2012 paper , Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon questioned the generally accepted assumption that economic growth is a continuous process that will persist forever. must double the amount of research effort searching for new ideas every 13 years to offset the increased difficulty of finding new ideas.”. As examples of recombinant innovation, e-mail and the Web were enabled by the Internet.

But any advantage in costs or distinctiveness that companies gained in this way was usually short-lived, for their rivals adopted similar technologies and process improvements and thus quickly matched the leaders.

The TV industry is being massively restructured as its companies keep searching for viable business models. The vast wasteland of television has been replaced by an excess of excellence that is fundamentally altering my media diet and threatening to consume my waking life in the process.

This was part of the organization’s search for “ practical solutions to fulfill the citizen’s demand” acknowledging that “learning cannot be conducted alone but has to be part of partnerships”. ” Share: Disseminate Results and Evaluate the Process. Complexity NetworkedLearning

This is Big Knowledge Management , leveraging the power of enterprise software platforms to store decision, process, and event memories. Process and event memories, like project outputs, are relatively easy to capture and codify. complexity PKM Work

In 2000, only one-quarter of the world’s stored information was digital and therefore subject to search and analysis. When collecting data was costly and processing it was difficult and time consuming, the sample was a savior.

Everyone pretty much agrees that there is a transformation of historical proportions underway, propelling us from the industrial society of the past two centuries to an information society that's in the process of being defined. As defined in Wikipedia, globalization refers primarily to the process of business and economic integration that has resulted from advances in digital technologies and the rise of the Internet.

It will be complex, develop hitherto unforeseen forms, and will have to respond to unforeseen challenges. In 1676, for example, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek used a microscope , a relatively recent and rare tool, to discover the existence of microorganisms in a drop of water.

For example, the return on assets (ROA) of US companies, - a general indicator of profitability, - has been progressively falling and is now almost one quarter its 1965 levels. Detailed demand forecasts, operational plans, and operational process manuals carefully script the actions and specify the resources required to meet anticipated demand.” “We consume media that have been packaged, programmed, and pushed to us based on our anticipated needs.

As loans are made, Grameen Bank relies on a variety of mechanisms to manage risk – for example, initial loans are for very small amounts and weekly payments are required as a way to get early visibility on potential default risks.

The SDM program aims to provide mid-career professionals with a systems perspective that will help them address and solve large-scale, global, complex challenges. The Systems Thinking Conference is intended to showcase innovative ways of addressing complex challenges, in particular, how to integrate technology, management and social sciences to successfully solve very tough problems. Why is it so difficult to make sound decisions about highly complex problems?

Transaction costs are incurred in obtaining goods and services outside the firm, such as searching for the right people, negotiating a contract, coordinating the work, managing intellectual property and so on. There are actual organizational advantages to firms, such as the ability to marshal a wide range of resources to address very complex problems. Christensen and Raynor classify organizational capabilities into three main categories: resources , processes and values.

They’ve been most successful when applied to complex problems like machine translation and image and voice recognition where a huge body of data is available and the data is fairly static, that is, the training data, - e.g., pictures of cats or the English language, - change very infrequently.

Modern human behavior is closely associated with the origin of language, the accumulation of knowledge, skills and culture, and the ability to process vast amounts of information. Money , for example, was first invented as a tool to facilitate commerce about 2500 years ago, and has since had a huge impact in the formation of business, economies and governments. Tools have played a critical role in human evolution for a very, very long time.

For example, the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) was launched by the White House earlier this year to enable “Individuals and organizations [to] utilize secure, efficient, easy-to-use, and interoperable identity solutions to access online services in a manner that promotes confidence, privacy, choice, and innovation.” Our Web searches and sites visited, including our likes and dislikes and purchase histories.